Laini Taylor, Author . Putnam $17.99 (437p) ISBN 978-0-399-24630-2
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n Taylor's debut fantasy, humans are unknowingly releasing demons into the world—demons trapped in bottles 25,000 years ago by armies of faeries. Young faerie Magpie Windwitch, whose grandfather is the West Wind and whose role in the...
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Laini Taylor. Little, Brown, $18.99 (420p) ISBN 978-0-316-13402-6
National Book Award finalist Taylor (Lips Touch: Three Times) again weaves a masterful mix of reality and fantasy with cross-genre appeal. Exquisitely written and beautifully paced, the tale is set in ghostly, romantic Prague, where 17-year-old...
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Laini Taylor. Little, Brown, $18.99 (528p) ISBN 978-0-316-13397-5
Taylor continues to build an irresistible fantasy world in this grim sequel to her masterful Daughter of Smoke & Bone. The war between chimaera and seraphim is in full force, with Karou reluctantly playing an essential—and painful—role. Having...
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Laini Taylor. Little, Brown, $19 (624p) ISBN 978-0-316-13407-1
In the final book of the Daughter of Smoke & Bone trilogy, Taylor revives the strong interweaving of reality and fantasy that gave the first story such cross-genre appeal. When a seraphim army with a terrifying message arrives in Rome, fittingly...
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Laini Taylor. Little, Brown, $18.99 (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-34168-4
In the first book of a duology, Taylor (the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy) again creates a complex and layered world of battling gods and humans. The tale begins 200 years after humans wiped out the powerful Mesarthim in a war so devastating...
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Laini Taylor, read by Khristina Hvam. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 14 CDs, 18 hrs., $26 ISBN 978-1-4789-5263-3
A mesmerizing conclusion to this popular fantasy trilogy will leave fans utterly satisfied. A band of angels descends to Earth, and humanity is brought face to face with the chimaera and seraphim universes. Meanwhile, Karou and Akiva, now in control
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Laini Taylor, read by Steve West. Hachette Audio, , unabridged, 15 CDs, 18.5 hrs., $30 ISBN 978-1-47891305-4
It’s odd that the audio edition of this epic YA novel by Taylor—which unfolds from the alternating perspectives of Lazlo Strange, the unassuming librarian who is poised to have the adventure of a lifetime, and Sarai, the lonely blue goddess who...
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Laini Taylor, Author, Jim Di Bartolo, Illustrator . Image $9.95 (80p) ISBN 978-1-58240-379-3
As a first effort, this horror adventure is promising but awkward. Set in early 19th-century France, the story follows Theophile Finistere, a young man who comes to his senses after several years in a Paris madhouse. Upon escaping, he retrieves some
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Laini Taylor, Author, Jim Di Bartolo, Illustrator , illus. by Jim Di Bartolo. Scholastic/Levine $17.99 (265p) ISBN 978-0-545-05585-7
Taylor offers a powerful trio of tales, each founded upon the consequences of a kiss. She explores the potentially awkward conceit in three dramatically different fantasies, each featuring a young female protagonist out of place in the world she...
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